I am putting more pictures of our New Jersey/New York vacation on here. These are of St. Patrick's Cathedral. (The pictures do NOT do it justice. It was amazing to see!) I really wanted to see this. However, after making the long, long, long, trek to it we discovered it was being used for a graduation. I guess they didn't care that we had flown to New York all the way from Oklahoma. Because of the graduation we weren't able to go inside. I was afraid when I approached them that the "bouncers" were going to throw me down the steps! Maybe next time we visit we can actually get inside. You wouldn't believe how hard it was to get a picture of this place. It is SO huge that you have to lay down on the ground to even get close!
They even have a website. You can find out all kinds of interesting facts and see better pictures of the WHOLE building here.
The website says...." her cornerstone was laid in 1858 and her doors swept open in 1879, it was over 150 years ago, when Archbishop John Hughes announced his inspired ambition to build the “new” Saint Patrick’s Cathedral
Each generation has added to her splendor. Her spires were completed in 1888 and The Lady Chapel in 1906. Her Kilgen Organs were installed in 1929. Major capital campaigns were conducted in the 1940’s and the 1970’s under Cardinals Spellman and Cooke, respectively. The Kilgen Organs were restored in the mid 1990s, and the gem of the Cathedral, the Lady Chapel was restored in 2003. Recent restorations have included the Main Altar, the chapels of Saints Anthony, Elizabeth, Jean Baptiste de la Salle, Louis and Michael and the Sacristy. Construction is underway on a new shrine to honor Our Lady of Czestochowa and will include paintings and statuary of Saints Casimir, Faustina, Jadwiga, Maximilian Kolbe and Stanislaus Kostka. Also in 2005, the chapels of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Saint Andrew will be restored."
Each generation has added to her splendor. Her spires were completed in 1888 and The Lady Chapel in 1906. Her Kilgen Organs were installed in 1929. Major capital campaigns were conducted in the 1940’s and the 1970’s under Cardinals Spellman and Cooke, respectively. The Kilgen Organs were restored in the mid 1990s, and the gem of the Cathedral, the Lady Chapel was restored in 2003. Recent restorations have included the Main Altar, the chapels of Saints Anthony, Elizabeth, Jean Baptiste de la Salle, Louis and Michael and the Sacristy. Construction is underway on a new shrine to honor Our Lady of Czestochowa and will include paintings and statuary of Saints Casimir, Faustina, Jadwiga, Maximilian Kolbe and Stanislaus Kostka. Also in 2005, the chapels of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Saint Andrew will be restored."
And just so you know we were really there (not because it is such a great picture) here is a photo to prove it.
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